Late last week the Federal Trade Commission testified in Congress that it wants to enable consumers to opt out of having their activities on the internet tracked — a common practice that enables businesses to serve targeted advertisements. According to the press release:

The [FTC] … supports giving consumers a “Do Not Track” option because [...]

Is your business in cleantech? You need to know about Northwest Energy Angels:

Northwest Energy Angels invests only in cleantech energy deals, so that’s a good use of my time rather than sitting through several presentations on sectors I’m not interested in. I think it’s the only angel group that has focused only on cleantech. [...]

From San Francisco Chronicle comes this news about a local deal of note:

Today Valuevine announced the closing of a new round of investment and the completion of its acquisition of Caravan, as the company continues to establish itself as the leader in social media and location-based marketing technology services for retailers.